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tunnel
English
Etymology
From Middle French tonnelle (“net”) or tonel (“cask”), diminutive of Old French tonne (“cask”), a word of uncertain origin and affiliation. Related to Old English tunne (“tun; cask; barrel”). More at tun.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?n(?)l/
- Rhymes: -?n?l
- Hyphenation: tun?nel
Noun
tunnel (plural tunnels)
- An underground or underwater passage.
- A passage through or under some obstacle.
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
- But very soon he grew to like it, for the Boy used to talk to him, and made nice tunnels for him under the bedclothes that he said were like the burrows the real rabbits lived in.
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
- A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
- (computing, networking) A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure.
- A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel.
- The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue.
- (mining) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.
Descendants
- ? Portuguese: túnel
Translations
Verb
tunnel (third-person singular simple present tunnels, present participle (UK) tunnelling or (US) tunneling, simple past and past participle (UK) tunnelled or (US) tunneled)
- (transitive) To make a tunnel through or under something; to burrow.
- (intransitive) To dig a tunnel.
- (computing, networking) To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for insecure or unsupported protocol).
- (transitive, medicine) To insert a catheter into a vein to allow long-term use.
- (physics) To undergo the quantum-mechanical phenomenon where a particle penetrates through a barrier that it classically cannot surmount.
Derived terms
Further reading
- tunnel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Tunnel (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- nunlet, unlent
Danish
Noun
tunnel c (definite singular tunnelen or tunnellen, indefinite plural tunneler or tunneller, definite plural tunnelerne or tunnellerne)
- tunnel
Derived terms
- tunnelsyn
- vindtunnel
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English tunnel, from Middle French tonnelle.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?.n?l/
- Hyphenation: tun?nel
Noun
tunnel m (plural tunnels, diminutive tunneltje n)
- tunnel
Derived terms
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English tunnel, itself a borrowing from French tonnelle; hence a reborrowing. Doublet of tonnelle.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ty.n?l/
Noun
tunnel m (plural tunnels)
- tunnel
Derived terms
- voir le bout du tunnel
Further reading
- “tunnel” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English tunnel.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tun.nel/
- Hyphenation: tùn?nel
Noun
tunnel m (invariable)
- tunnel
- Synonyms: galleria, traforo
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- tunell
Noun
tunnel m (definite singular tunnelen, indefinite plural tunneler, definite plural tunnelene)
- a tunnel
- (soccer) nutmeg
Derived terms
References
- “tunnel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Anagrams
- lunnet, lunten
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- tunell
Etymology
From English tunnel, Middle French tonnelle (“net”) or tonel (“cask”), diminutive of Old French tonne (“cask”), a word of uncertain origin and affiliation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??n?l?/, /?t?n??l/
Noun
tunnel m (definite singular tunnelen, indefinite plural tunnelar, definite plural tunnelane)
- a tunnel
- (soccer) nutmeg
Derived terms
References
- “tunnel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
tunnel c
- tunnel
- An underground or underwater passage.
- A passage through or under some obstacle.
- A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
Declension
Related terms
- biltunnel
- järnvägstunnel
- tunneleffekt
- tunnelseende
- tunnla
- tunnling
- vindtunnel
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nursery
English
Etymology
From Middle English noricerie, norserye (“children's nursery; state of being fostered or nursed; education, upbringing”) [and other forms], from Old French norricerie, nourricerie, from norrice, nourrice (modern French nourrice (“childminder, nanny; wet nurse”)) + -erie (suffix forming feminine nouns). Norrice and nourrice are derived from Late Latin n?tr?cia (“wet nurse”), from Latin n?tr?cius (“that nurses or suckles; nourishing”), from n?tri? (“to breastfeed, nurse, suckle”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh?- (“to flow”). The English word may be analysed as nourice, nurse +? -ery (suffix forming nouns meaning ‘place of’).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n??s??i/, /?n??s?i/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n?s??i/, /?n?s?i/
- Hyphenation: nurs?e?ry
Noun
nursery (countable and uncountable, plural nurseries)
- (countable) A place where nursing (“breastfeeding”) or the raising of children is carried on.
- (by extension) Especially in European countries: a room or area in a household set apart for the care of children.
- A place where the pre-school children of working parents are supervised during the day; a crèche, a daycare centre.
- A nursery school (“a school where pre-school children learn and play at the same time”).
- (Philippines) The first year of pre-school.
- (by extension) Especially in European countries: a room or area in a household set apart for the care of children.
- (countable, also figuratively) A place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
- (agriculture, zoology) A place where animals breed, or where young animals are naturally or artificially reared (for example, on a farm).
- (horticulture) A place where young shrubs, trees, vines, etc., are cultivated for transplanting, or (more generally) made available for public sale, a garden centre; also (obsolete) a plantation of young trees.
- (sports) A club or team for developing the skills of young players.
- (countable) Something which educates and nurtures.
- (countable, billiards) Short for nursery cannon (“a carom shot involving balls that are very close together”).
- (countable, obsolete, rare) Someone or something that is nursed; a nursling.
- (uncountable, obsolete) The act of nursing or rearing.
Derived terms
Related terms
- nurse
Translations
Notes
References
Further reading
- nursery (room) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- nursery habitat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- nursery school on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- plant nursery on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- nursery (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English nursery.
Noun
nursery f (invariable)
- nursery (place for the care of children)
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